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Berin Szoka - Hearsay Culture - Show #169 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technol…
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Google Gets Slammed with the Biggest FTC Fine Ever
Google has been hit with the biggest fine in the history of the Federal Trade Commission: $22.5 million. It has to do with cookies, bits of computer code placed…
Mike Masnick - Hearsay Culture - Show #168 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of techn…
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The Trouble with ID Cookies: Why Do Not Track Must Mean Do Not Collect
Co-authored with Jonathan Mayer. The debate over the meaning of Do Not Track has raged for well over a year now. The primary forum is the W3C Tracking Protecti…
Francesca Coppa and Tisha Turk - Hearsay Culture - Show #167 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
Brett Frischmann - Hearsay Culture - Show #166 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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FTC Dings Google $22.5M in Safari Cookie Flap
Google agreed to pay a record $22.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple’s Saf…
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Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident Under Computer Control
This technology is still at its very early stages and 300,000 miles is not all that big of a sample. According to a "cursory" analysis by Bryant Walke…
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Report by the CIS Summer Research Interns on the Transportation Research Board’s 2012 Workshop on the Future of Road Vehicle Automation
Report by David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas CIS summer research interns David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas joined Resident Fel…
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FTC Hits Google With $22.5 Million Fine Over Safari Tracking
Rumors of the $22.5 million settlement first cropped up in June, but the issue dates back to February. At that point, a Stanford University graduate student, Jo…
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Google Hit with Record $22.5-Million fine for Safari Tracking
The FTC said that Google informed Safari users that since the browser blocks third-party cookies, they did not need to opt out of online tracking. Yet Google in…